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September 25, 2000 Issue

"All this crap about 'coming out'! I don't think I have ever really been in."-- Liz Smith, "Straight Dope"

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After 50 years of prying into the personal affairs of celebrities, gossip columnist Liz Smith offers up her own in Natural Blonde. So is she, or isn't she? While her first, heartbreaking romance with a woman is included, so are more than a few affairs with men, some consummated, most not. Like the time she fell in love with Rock Hudson . . .

Put Liz Smith in a room with Jeannette Walls, Joanna Molloy, and Michael Musto, and the talk turns to the occupational hazards of gossip: being seduced by celebrities, getting burned by publicists, losing your friends -- or your access. And, of course, how long Angelina and Billy Bob will last.

We tend to see schools chancellors as tragic figures waiting to happen. But don't fret over Harold Levy just yet: The former Citigroup executive brings Fortune 500 bona fides and a network of powerful friends (not to mention his own apartment) to the task of fixing a system in disarray. And since being run out of town isn't an option, he's ready to go for broke.

What's the most well-adjusted beach town in America? If it's August, it's Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where New York therapists retreat en masse to get their heads together. But the doctors who help patients find perspective for a living often find it hard to get in touch with their vacationing selves.

GOTHAMRecord companies fight the power of Napster; the city's top chefs order out for sushiGOTHAM REAL ESTATE Al Roker's $3 million townhouseGOTHAM STYLE Harry Potter glasses take the city's middle schools by storm